The News We're Not Hearing

Okie - why don't you do a bit of research on nutrition/weight etc. Some of your questions are readily answered with a tiny bit of research.

ehBeth wrote:

Okie - why don't you do a bit of research on nutrition/weight etc. Some of your questions are readily answered with a tiny bit of research.

Research tells me too much to eat causes people to be fat, from too much leisure time, too much couch potatoing, not enough work, and too much money to spend on food. What does your research say?

okie wrote:

ehBeth wrote:

Okie - why don't you do a bit of research on nutrition/weight etc. Some of your questions are readily answered with a tiny bit of research.

Research tells me too much to eat causes people to be fat, from too much leisure time, too much couch potatoing, not enough work, and too much money to spend on food. What does your research say?

That cheap food is quite often the most unhealthy food you could buy. It isn't a matter of 'too much money' at all. The exact opposite, in fact.

Of course, they could live off of rice and beans, but... they don't.

Cycloptichorn

I don't disagree with that assessment, Tico. I'm just pointing out that obesity certainly isn't a product of too much money to spend on food.

Cycloptichorn

Of course, they could live off of rice and beans, but... they don't.

Cycloptichorn

"The Navy lawyer who led a successful Supreme Court challenge of the Bush administration's military tribunals for detainees at Guantanamo Bay has been passed over for promotion and will have to leave the military, The Miami Herald reported Sunday."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/navy_lawyer&printer=1

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/front/15704858.htm

Displease a Lobbyist, Get Fired

E-mails show Jack Abramoff's ability to influence White House staffing decisions through his highly placed friends.

By Peter Wallsten
LA Times Staff Writer
October 15, 2006

WASHINGTON -- For five years, Allen Stayman wondered who ordered his removal from a State Department job negotiating agreements with tiny Pacific island nations -- even when his own bosses wanted him to stay.

Now he knows.

Newly disclosed e-mails suggest that the ax fell after intervention by one of the highest officials at the White House: Ken Mehlman, on behalf of one of the most influential lobbyists in town, Jack Abramoff.

The e-mails show that Abramoff, whose client list included the Northern Mariana Islands, had long opposed Stayman's work advocating labor changes in that U.S. commonwealth, and considered what his lobbying team called the "Stayman project" a high priority.

"Mehlman said he would get him fired," an Abramoff associate wrote after meeting with Mehlman, who was then White House political director.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki ordered the release Wednesday of a leading member of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr's political organisation who was detained by US troops, state television said.

Relatives and supporters of Sheikh Mazen Al Saedi confirmed he had been released, while a Sadr spokesman said Iraqi interior ministry vehicles brought him to the Shia movement's offices in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad.